Equilibrio: new build apartments in Estepona from €570,000

The air conditioning and the hot water run on aerothermal equipment, a heat pump that draws the warmth it needs from the outside air rather than burning fuel. Each home has one central control for its air conditioning. The bathrooms and the guest toilet have electric underfloor heating that warms up quickly, and a mechanical ventilation system changes the air indoors automatically.

The kitchen is fitted with units in light-coloured finishes, a laminate worktop, and a sink with its tap. It comes with an induction hob, an oven, a microwave, an extractor hood set into the units, a fridge behind a panel that matches them, a dishwasher and a washer-dryer.

Porcelain tiles of 60 by 60 centimetres, in light sand or beige tones, run through every room, the bathrooms included. The walls of the bathrooms and the guest toilet are tiled from floor to ceiling in 30 by 90 centimetre porcelain from the same range. The terraces and the shared areas have light porcelain tiles with a non-slip finish, and the walls and ceilings inside are painted matt white.

The main bathroom has a bath with a stainless steel shower column and a glass screen, one basin or two depending on the plan, set into a unit with drawers, and a wall mirror. The second bathroom has a shower tray in place of the bath, with the same column and screen, a single basin on a unit with drawers, and a mirror. The shower taps are thermostatic, which means they hold the water at the temperature you set. Toilets and basins are in white glazed porcelain, with chrome single-lever taps.

Windows and terrace doors are aluminium, lacquered in anthracite grey, with double glazing and a thermal break, an insulating strip inside the frame that stops heat and cold passing through the metal. The living room and bedroom blinds are electric. Terrace rails are safety glass with stainless steel handrails. The front door is reinforced and has a security lock, the doors inside are lacquered white, and the bedrooms have built-in wardrobes with sliding doors to match.

The outside walls are built in two layers of brick, with insulation and an air gap between them, rendered outside and lined inside with plasterboard. On the main façade they are faced with large porcelain panels made to look like natural stone. The walls between one home and the next are brick with two layers of rock wool insulation, which reduces the noise and heat passing through, finished in plasterboard. The flat roofs are insulated, waterproofed and tiled so that they can be walked on.

Each home has white switches and sockets, and television and data points in the living room and the main bedroom. A colour video entry phone lets you open the entrance doors to the shared areas from inside the home. The terraces have spot lighting.